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ewly planted flowers and shrubs pop and bloom around Baltimore’s Washington Monument and nearby green space, thanks in part to a seed grant from the Johns Hopkins University’s President’s Office and Peabody Institute.

Johns Hopkins is Challenge also lending its support to help grant brings jump-start a push support from to fully make over the rest of neighborhood the Mount Vernon Place environs in time for stakeholders the monument’s 200th anniversary in 2015.

In February, the Baltimore City Commission for Historical and Architectural Preservation conditionally approved a new master plan for Mount Vernon Place, the plus sign–shaped public park system that has the Washington Monument at its center. The area is bound

by Madison Street to the north, Centre Street to the south, St. Paul Street to the east and Cathedral Street to the west. The Peabody Institute sits right below Mount Vernon Place’s east park.

The Mount Vernon Place Conservancy sponsored the area’s new master plan, which was prepared by the Olin Partnership, a leading U.S. urban landscape design and preservation firm.

The conservancy—founded by engaged citizens from the Mount Vernon– Belvedere Association and Friends of Mount Vernon Place—seeks to reverse years of decline by improving the area’s landscaping and maintenance and, long term, securing funds for the park’s phased restoration, including the repair and reopening of the Washington Monument to the public.

The conservancy, in partnership with Baltimore City, began raising funds this spring. In response, Peabody and the university issued a $15,000 challenge grant, conditional upon nine nearby property owners contributing to the

Nursing student Jamie Hatcher, left, is in Abu Dhabi, learning about labor and delivery. Mechanical engineering major Andrew Kelly, above, is in Philadelphia, working on antique sports cars.

By Greg Rienzi

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This summer, some Johns Hopkins students are packing the sunblock and flip-flops and taking a deserved rest from studies and exams, but others are using the warm-weather months to sample the real world and put what they learned in the classroom to use.

Here’s a look at what five are up to this summer. Their stories are a mixture of high-octane thrills, hands-on learning and adventures in foreign lands.

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ule No. 1 of working in an antique sports car museum: Don’t get romantically attached to things on four wheels. Andrew Kelly, a junior mechanical engineering major and an unabashed gearhead, learned this valuable lesson early on in his summer apprenticeship at the Simeone Foundation Museum, located minutes from the Philadelphia International Airport.

Assembled by renowned neurosurgeon Frederick Simeone over a 50-year span, the museum collection contains more than 60 of the rarest and most significant racing and sports cars ever built. Among those housed

in an old former engine remanufacturing plant are a 1909 American Underslung with its classic 40-inch, thin white wheels; a 1933 Alfa Romeo Monza; an iconic 1970 Porsche 917 LH like the one Steve McQueen drove in the 1971 film Le Mans; and an original 1964 Shelby Daytona Cobra Coupe valued at more than $7 million.

Kelly fell head over wheels with a car not yet in the permanent collection, a 1954 white Austin Healey 100-4 with red interior that Simeone bought at an auction and planned to drive himself.

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Landau named vice provost for faculty affairs Goal of refocused position is to further support and enhance faculty excellence

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the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, has been appointed vice provost for faculty affairs. She succeeds Michela Gallagher, former chair of Psychological and Brain Sciences in the Krieger School, who stepped down as vice provost for academic affairs to return to her research.

As vice provost for faculty affairs, Landau will work closely with the vice deans for faculty in the respective schools and with faculty across the university to advance and promote their work and to improve the quality of faculty life. She assumed her new role on July 1.

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“Barbara is a proven scholar and academic leader,” said Lloyd Minor, provost and senior vice president for academic affairs. “She is ideally suited to fill this important role, which has been refocused to address the most pressing issues of one our most important resources—our faculty.

Barbara will be a wonderful addition to the Office of the Provost,” Minor said.

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JHM International elects Kersey chairman of board

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ohns Hopkins Medicine International, the international arm of Johns Hopkins Medicine, has elected Christopher W. Kersey to become its new chairman of the board.

Kersey is managing member of Camden Partners, a Baltimore-based private equity firm. He has been serving on the boards of trustees of Johns Hopkins Medicine and The Johns Hopkins Hospital since July 2010. His international experience includes work with Sumitomo Biosciences in Japan and the U.S. Agency for International Development in the former Soviet Union (the Republic of Georgia) as well as research fellowships focusing on the National Health Service in the United Kingdom and on Sweden-based Telefon LM AB Ericsson’s market entry into China.

Kersey received his bachelor’s degree from Stanford University, his MBA from the Harvard Business School and his medical degree summa cum laude from the Emory University School of Medicine. In 1996, he attained the distinction of becoming one of the first individuals in history to be accepted in the same year into the residency program of Harvard Medical School as well as both Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School.

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he Center for Africana Studies is once again hosting its five-week summer institute, “Slaves, Soldiers, Rebels: Black Resistance in the Tropical Atlantic, 1760–1888,” on the Homewood campus.

Twenty-five faculty members from colleges and universities across the country arrived in Baltimore in late June for the start of the summer institute, which continues through July 29. The goal of the institute is to present new scholarship on the black Atlantic to history professors and lecturers who may not be specialists in the subject.

Sessions are being led by the Krieger School’s Department of History faculty members Michael Johnson and Franklin Knight, who is also the center’s director, along with visiting scholars who are leaders in their fields. Each week of the institute features a different theme, including Atlantic connections, the English and Dutch Caribbean, the Haitian revolution, the United States and Iberian Americans.

The summer institute co-directors are Ben Vinson, vice dean for centers and interdepartmental programs at Johns Hopkins and an executive board member of the Center for Africana Studies; Stewart King, a professor of history at Mount Angel Seminary in

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Oregon; and Natalie Zacek, a lecturer in history and American studies at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom.

The institute is supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The initial grant, for the summer 2009 presentation of the institute, was $200,000, and this year’s grant is $183,000.

JH-U-Turn nets $7,700 for UWay, Neighborhood Fund

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t was another good year for JH-U-Turn.

In its second outing, the “yard sale” of gently used electronics, books, furniture and clothing donated by moving-out students, along with faculty and staff, netted $7,700.

The event, which took place June 11 in the Ralph S. O’Connor Recreation Center on the Homewood campus, was organized by Carrie Bennett, student/community liaison in the Office of the Dean of Student Life.

“The funds raised are just a part of this program,” Bennett said, noting that volunteers “helped to ‘recycle, reuse and reduce’ literally tons of items that might have been destined solely for a landfill.”

Bennett said that the proceeds, which topped the launch year’s total of $5,800, will be split evenly between the United Way of Central Maryland and the Johns Hopkins Neighborhood Fund, which supports nonprofits serving communities in close proximity to Johns Hopkins campuses and that are associated with Johns Hopkins through institutional involvement or affiliation with faculty, staff, students or retirees.

Traditional tea celebrates Carrolls’ 211th anniversary

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t’s not often you get invited to a 211th wedding anniversary celebration—or get to experience the life of one of Early America’s wealthiest and most socially prominent families. But both are possible on Sunday, July 17, on the Homewood campus.

From 1 to 4 p.m., Homewood Museum, the former country house of Charles Carroll Jr. and Harriet Chew Carroll, will be hosting a traditional afternoon tea that celebrates the couple’s marriage in 1800. Seatings are at 1 and 3 p.m., with optional house tours beforehand.

Guests will learn about the Carrolls’ lives and lifestyle as they dine in the elegant reception hall, designed to be one of the coolest rooms in the house during the summer months. Classic finger sandwiches, scones with clotted cream and jam, seasonal fruits and pastries will accompany a selection of fine black and fruit teas and a celebratory Champagne toast.

Tickets are $28, $23 members, by prepaid reservation, made by calling 410-5165589.

Contributing Writers Applied Physics Laboratory Michael Buckley, Paulette Campbell Bloomberg School of Public Health Tim Parsons, Natalie Wood-Wright Carey Business School Andrew Blumberg, Patrick Ercolano Homewood Lisa De Nike, Amy Lunday, Dennis O’Shea, Tracey A. Reeves, Phil Sneiderman Johns Hopkins Medicine Christen Brownlee, Stephanie Desmon, Neil A. Grauer, Audrey Huang, John Lazarou, David March, Vanessa McMains, Ekaterina Pesheva, Vanessa Wasta, Maryalice Yakutchik Peabody Institute Richard Selden SAIS Felisa Neuringer Klubes School of Education James Campbell, Theresa Norton School of Nursing Kelly Brooks-Staub University Libraries and Museums Brian Shields, Heather Egan Stalfort

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Tomaselli becomes president of American Heart Association Cardiology professor is seventh JHU faculty member to head group B y E l l e n B e t h L e v i tt

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ordon F. Tomaselli, professor and director of the Division of Cardiology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, became president of the American Heart Association, the nation’s leading voluntary health organization focused on cardiovascular disease and stroke, on July 1.

Tomaselli is the seventh Johns Hopkins faculty member to serve as president of the AHA. A cardiac electrophysiologist and internationally recognized expert in sudden cardiac death and heart rhythm disturbances, Tomaselli is the Michel Mirowski, M.D., Professor of Cardiology and co-director of the Johns Hopkins Heart and Vascular Institute.

Edward D. Miller, the Frances Watt Baker, M.D., and Lenox D. Baker Jr., M.D., Dean of the Medical Faculty and CEO of Johns Hop-

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kins Medicine, said, “This is a tremendous honor for Dr. Tomaselli and Johns Hopkins.

It underscores his contributions and role as a world leader in the study of the causes and potential therapies to prevent sudden cardiac death.”

“Dr. Tomaselli is building on a strong personal and professional history of active involvement with the American Heart Association and carrying on the finest traditions of Hopkins cardiology in offering

global leadership and insight to millions of professionals, volunteers, patients and their families affected by cardiovascular disease,” said fellow cardiologist Myron “Mike” Weisfeldt, professor and chairman of the Department of Medicine at the School of Medicine, and physician in chief at The Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Weisfeldt, a past president of the American Heart Association (1989–90), added, “I take great pride in seeing the torch of the AHA leadership passed to such a distinguished physician-scientist, colleague and friend.”

In 2007 and 2008, Tomaselli served as program chair for the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions, the world’s premier conference for cardiologists. He is currently chairman of the association’s 2010–2013 Strategic Planning Task Force.

Tomaselli also remains an active member of the American College of Cardiology and the Heart Rhythm Society.

In addition to Weisfeldt, Johns Hopkins faculty members who are past AHA presidents are E. Cowles Andrus (1954–55), Helen Taussig (1965–66), Richard “Dick” Ross (1973–74), Bernadine Healy (1988–89) and Martha Hill (1997–98). Ross also is a

former dean of the School of Medicine, and Hill currently serves as dean of the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing.

Tomaselli has focused most of his research on arrhythmias and especially on new therapies aimed at warding off potentially fatal heart rhythm disturbances, which claim the lives of more than a quarter million Americans each year. He has published more than 150 peer-reviewed research articles and many book chapters on various aspects of arrhythmia.

Tomaselli earned his undergraduate degree in biochemistry and chemistry in 1977 at the State University of New York at Buffalo and his medical degree in 1982 at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He completed his residency at the University of California, San Francisco in 1985. He began his career in cardiology at the UCSF Cardiovascular Research Institute as a research fellow before moving to the fellowship program at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1986 and joining the faculty three years later. He has received numerous awards, has served on a variety of boards and committees, and was president of the Cardiac Electrophysiology Society from 2003 to 2005.

You are what you tweet: Tracking public health trends by Twitter

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witter allows millions of social media fans to comment in 140 characters or fewer on about just about anything: an actor’s outlandish behavior, an earthquake’s tragic toll or the great taste of a grilled cheese sandwich.

But by sifting through this busy flood of banter, is it possible to track important public health trends? Two Johns Hopkins University computer scientists would respond with a one-word tweet: “Yes!” Mark Dredze and Michael J. Paul fed 2 billion public tweets posted between May 2009 and October 2010 into computers, then used software to filter out the 1.5 million messages that referred to health matters. Identities of the tweeters were not collected by Dredze, a researcher at the university’s Human Language Technology Center of Excellence and an assistant research professor of computer science, and Paul, a doctoral student.

“Our goal was to find out whether Twitter posts could be a useful source of public health information,” Dredze said. “We determined that indeed they could. In some cases, we probably learned some things that even the tweeters’ doctors were not aware of, like which over-the-counter medicines the posters were using to treat their symptoms at home.”

By sorting these health-related tweets into electronic “piles,” Dredze and Paul uncovered intriguing patterns about allergies, flu, insomnia, cancer, obesity, depression, pain and other ailments. “There have been some narrow studies using Twitter posts, for example, to track the flu,” Dredze said. “But to our knowledge, no one has ever used tweets to look at as many health issues as we did.”

Computer scientists Mark Dredze and Michael J. Paul sort tweets to uncover patterns about allergies, flu, insomnia, cancer, obesity, depression, pain and other ailments.

Dredze and Paul, who also are affiliated with the university’s Center for Language and Speech Processing, have discussed some of their results in recent months at computer science conferences. They will present their complete study on July 18 in Barcelona, Spain, at the International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.

In addition to finding a range of health ailments in Twitter posts, the researchers were able to record many of the medications that ill tweeters consumed, thanks to posts such as: “Had to pop a Benadryl … allergies are the worst.”

Other tweets pointed to misuse of medicine. “We found that some people tweeted that they were taking antibiotics for the flu,” Paul said. “But antibiotics don’t work structures and governance of colleges and universities. The review features the latest theories, scholarship, research and debates related to gender and higher education.

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on the flu, which is a virus, and this practice could contribute to the growing antibiotic resistance problems. So these tweets showed us that some serious medical misperceptions exist out there.”

Of course, the vast majority of daily tweets have nothing to do with an illness. While a simple approach would be to filter for words that are tied to illness, such as “headache” or “fever,” this strategy fails on such tweets as “High price of gas is a headache for my business” or “Got a case of Bieber Fever. Love his new song.” In order to find the healthrelated posts among the billions of messages in their original pool, the Johns Hopkins researchers applied a filtering and categorization system they devised. With this tool, computers can be taught to disregard phrases that do not really relate to one’s health even though they contain a word commonly used in a health context.

Once the unrelated tweets were removed, the remaining results provided some surprising findings. “When we started, I didn’t even know if people talked about allergies on Twitter,” Paul said. “But we found out that they do. And there was one thing I didn’t expect: The system found two different types of allergies—the type that causes sniffling and sneezing, and the kind that causes skin rashes and hives.”

In about 200,000 of the health-related tweets, the researchers were able to draw on user-provided public information to identify the geographic state from which the message was sent. That allowed them to track some trends by time and place, such as when the

allergy and flu seasons peaked in various parts of the country. “We were able to see from the tweets that the allergy season started earlier in the warmer states and later in the Midwest and the Northeast,” Dredze said.

Dredze and Paul have already begun talking to public health scientists, including some affiliated with Johns Hopkins, who say that future studies of tweets could uncover even more useful data, not only about posters’ medical problems but also about public perceptions concerning illnesses, medications and other health issues.

Still, Dredze and Paul cautioned that trying to take the nation’s temperature by analyzing tweets has its limitations. For one thing, most Twitter users did not comment more than once on their particular ailment, making it tough to track how long the illness lasted and whether it recurred. In addition, most Twitter users tend to be young (nearly half are under 35), which would exclude many senior citizens from a public health study. Also, at the moment, Twitter is dominated by users who are in the United States, making it less useful for research in other countries.

Although social media sites allow users to expose lots of personal information to friends and strangers, Twitter-based research may reach only a certain depth. “In our study,” Paul said, “we could only learn what people were willing to share. We think there’s a limit to what people are willing to share on Twitter.”

Nevertheless, Dredze says that there is still plenty of useful data left to plumb from Twitter posts. “The people I’ve talked to have felt this is a really interesting research tool,” he said, “and they have some great ideas about what they’d like to learn next from Twitter.”

Related websites Johns Hopkins Human Language Technology Center of Excellence:

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JHU Surgery director named VP of Society for Vascular Surgery Julie A. Freischlag is first woman named to post; on track for 2014 presidency

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ulie A. Freischlag, the director of the Department of Surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and surgeon in chief at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, has been elected the first female vice president of the Society for Vascular Surgery.

The position puts her on the path to become the first woman to serve as the society’s president, in 2014.

“I am humbled and delighted to be elected to this position in such a prestigious organization,” said Freischlag, who is also the William Stewart Halsted Professor at Johns Hopkins. “The society is dedicated to improving the care of our vascular patients, enhancing our knowledge of vascular diseases and training the very best specialists to do both.”

Freischlag has been at Johns Hopkins since 2003. She received her medical degree at Rush University Medical College in Chicago and previously served on the faculty of the Medical College of Wisconsin and the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Freischlag is the editor of the Archives of Surgery and the associate editor of the American Journal of Surgery. She serves on the editorial boards of the Annals of Vascular Surgery and the Journal of the American Medi-

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cal Association. She also is involved with the American College of Surgeons, where she is a regent, as well as the American Medical Women’s Association, the Association for Academic Surgery, the Association of Women Surgeons and the Society of Surgical Chairs.

She has served as the principal investigator on several major studies, including the Open vs. Endovascular Repair of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms Trial. Freischlag’s research interests lie in the treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysms and thoracic outlet syndrome.

“The Society for Vascular Surgery is excited to have Dr. Freischlag accept this important leadership role,” said Richard P. Cambria, the organization’s current president. “She is an accomplished surgeon and author who serves as an outstanding role model for females and males in the field of vascular health care.”

Hopkins. In 2009, Landau was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the CogniContinued from page 1 tive Science Society, the Association for human knowledge of space and language, Psychological Science and the American said that she will draw on experiences she Psychological Association. has gained as a department chair, as well as Landau becomes vice provost as Galstrategies she has gleaned from fellow faculty lagher embarks on a yearlong sabbatical members who have created programs to help devoted to her study of the neuroscience of their peers, to shape her new memory loss in the aging— role and advance faculty intergroundbreaking research that ests. could have profound impli “I am stepping into a role cations in the treatment of that although refocused from Alzheimer’s disease. the position that Michela held

Gallagher, a world-reis strongly shaped by her work nowned neuroscientist who over the past three years in is the Krieger-Eisenhower the Provost’s Office,” Landau Professor of Psychology and said. “The central goal of the Neuroscience at Johns Hopnew position is to support kins, described her three-year and enhance faculty excelterm as vice provost as both lence. This includes helping to exhilarating and taxing, and improve the quality of faculty Barbara Landau said that now is a good time academic experience, enhancfor her to move on. ing faculty development efforts and increas“I see this as an opportunity to concening faculty diversity. Most of these activitrate on some important things we are ties have already undergone considerable doing in my lab, but I leave the position of development under Michela’s guidance, and vice provost with tremendous satisfaction,” it is a privilege to be carrying these projects Gallagher said. forward.”

Gallagher said that her objective as vice In assuming her new post, Landau said provost has been to make Johns Hopkins that she will divide her time between facthe best place to be for faculty because proulty affairs and her research lab. In addition viding that climate is essential to attracting to her work on language learning, spatial and retaining the most outstanding scholars, representation and the relationship between scientists and educators. Gallagher said that these two foundational systems of human she is especially pleased with the substanknowledge, Landau is a noted authority on tive and more frequent engagement she has Williams syndrome, a rare genetic disorder had with the vice deans of faculty across the caused by the absence of genes in a person’s schools during her tenure. chromosomal makeup. She joined the fac A faculty member since 1997, Gallagher ulty in 2001 and became chair of Cognitive served as interim dean of the Krieger School Science in 2006. prior to the appointment of Katherine New Landau received her doctorate from the man in September 2010. Much of her crossUniversity of Pennsylvania and held faculty disciplinary research is focused on the aging positions at Columbia University, the Unibrain and the changes that can lead to memversity of California, Irvine and the Uniory loss, cognitive impairment and, eventually, versity of Delaware before coming to Johns Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia. G FILE PHOTO

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Students take top prize with device that could cut dialysis risk

By Phil Sneiderman

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device that could reduce key health risks facing kidneyfailure patients who are connected to dialysis machines has won a $10,000 first prize for Johns Hopkins graduate students in the 2011 ASME Innovation Showcase.

The competition, involving 10 collegiate teams, was conducted earlier this month in Dallas at the annual meeting of the ASME, founded in 1880 as American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Judges based their awards on technical ingenuity, quality of business plan, potential for success in the marketplace and other factors.

The top prize went to the Hemova Port, a device designed to be implanted beneath the skin in a leg, allowing a kidney-failure patient to receive blood-cleansing dialysis treatment with reduced risk of infection, clotting and narrowing of the blood vessels, the three most common problems linked to existing connection techniques. The prototype has not yet been used in human patients, but testing in animals has begun.

This device was developed by five Johns Hopkins biomedical engineering students enrolled in a one-year master’s degree program in the university’s Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design: Sherri Hall, Peter Li, Shishira Nagesh, Mary O’Grady and Thora Thorgilsdottir.

With help from the Johns Hopkins Technology Transfer staff, the team has filed for three provisional patents covering their technology. The patents list the five students and three of their medical faculty advisers as the inventors.

The team members recently graduated, but Li has remained in Baltimore to form a company that will continue to test and develop the project. He is joined in the endeavor by Brandon Doan, who repre-

The Hemova Port was developed by Johns Hopkins biomedical engineering graduate students Peter Li, Thora Thorgilsdottir, Sherri Hall, Mary O’Grady and Shishira Nagesh.

sented Hemova in the ASME competition.

Doan earned a Johns Hopkins undergraduate degree in biomedical engineering and is now enrolled in an engineering management master’s program. Li and Doan will manage the company’s daily operations, while the other four student inventors will serve as consultants and could benefit financially if the project advances.

“Winning first-place in the ASME competition is a great honor,” Li said. “The award and the recognition will go a long way toward helping to continue further research, and we hope it will bring us closer to the day when our device is available to help dialysis patients.”

The student inventors learned about the need for such a device last year while accompanying physicians on hospital rounds as part of their academic program. They watched as one doctor performed a procedure to open a

narrowed blood vessel at a kidney patient’s dialysis access site. They learned that this narrowing was a common complication facing kidney patients.

The students discovered that kidney failure each year requires 1.5 million people globally—350,000 of them in the United States alone—to undergo regular hemodialysis to prevent a fatal buildup of toxins in the bloodstream. The students also learned that the three most common ways to connect the machine to a patient’s bloodstream work for only a limited time because of problems with infection, blood clots and narrowing of the blood vessels. According to the students’ business plan, these current dialysis access options are “grossly inadequate,” contributing to increased health care expenses and, in some cases, patient deaths.

To address these problems, the stu-

dents developed an access port that can be implanted beneath the skin, reducing the risk of infection. The Hemova device is equipped with two valves that can be opened by the dialysis technician with a syringe from outside the skin. The technician can similarly close the valves when the procedure is over, an approach that helps avoid infection and clotting. The device also includes a simple cleaning system, serving as yet another way to deter infections.

Currently, most dialysis access sites are in the arm or the heart. The Hemova device instead is sutured to the leg’s femoral vein, avoiding the unnaturally high blood flows that cause vessel narrowing when dialysis machines are connected to veins and arteries in the arm. The student inventors say that the Hemova Port’s leg connection should allow the site to remain in use for a significantly longer period of time.

The Hemova team has applied for a $50,000 grant to conduct more animal testing in the coming months. Clinical trials involving human patients could begin as soon as 2013, the students said.

In developing the device, the students’ clinical advisers were Johns Hopkins School of Medicine faculty members Thomas Reifsnyder, an assistant professor of surgery, and Kelvin Hong and Clifford R. Weiss, assistant professors of radiology. Their academic program adviser was Soumyadipta Acharya.

Related websites Johns Hopkins Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design:

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lood vessels and supporting cells appear to be pivotal partners in repairing nerves ravaged by diabetic neuropathy, and nurturing their partnership with nerve cells might make the difference between success and failure in experimental efforts to regrow damaged nerves, Johns Hopkins researchers report in a new study.

About 20 percent of diabetics experience neuropathy, a painful tingling, burning or numbness in the hands and feet that reflects damage to nerves and sometimes leads to infections and amputation of the toes, fingers, hands or feet over time. Current treatments for diabetic neuropathy focus on relieving symptoms but don’t address the root cause by repairing nerve damage. Previous research has shown that nerve cells’ long extensions, known as axons, regenerate slowly in diabetics, scuttling various experiments to regrow healthy nerves, says study leader Michael Polydefkis, associate professor of neurology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Searching for the reasons behind this slow regeneration, Polydefkis, along with Johns Hopkins assistant professor of neurology Gigi Ebenezer and their colleagues, recruited 10 patients with diabetic neuropathy and 10 healthy people of similar ages and took tiny (3 millimeters) “punch” biopsies from the skin of participants’ thighs. Several months later, they took 4 millimeter biopsies from the same sites to see how the nerves, blood vessels and nerve-supporting cells, called Schwann cells, were growing back into the healing biopsy site.

In both the neuropathy patients and the healthy individuals, results reported in the June issue of Brain showed that the first to grow into the healing skin were blood vessels, followed soon after by Schwann cells and then axons, which appeared to use the blood vessels as scaffolds.

However, the entire process was significantly delayed for the neuropathy patients.

Not only was axon regeneration slower compared to that in the healthy patients, as expected, but blood vessel growth rate was

also slower, and fewer Schwann cells accompanied the growing axons into the healing skin.

“Our results suggest that regenerative abnormalities associated with diabetes are widespread,” Polydefkis said. “They’re not just affecting nerves; they’re also affecting blood vessel growth and Schwann cell proliferation.”

Additionally, he says, the findings could explain why blood vessel–related problems, such as heart attacks and strokes, often

accompany diabetes. Slowed regeneration of damaged blood vessels could contribute to these conditions as well, he says.

Polydefkis says that the findings provide potential new targets for treating neuropathy and vascular problems. By promoting blood vessel and Schwann cell growth, researchers might be able to speed up axon regeneration and successfully repair damaged nerves and blood vessels, potentially combating diabetic neuropathy and vascular complications simultaneously.

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“Peabody has been an anchor of Mount Vernon Place since we opened our doors in 1866,” Sharkey said. “Our students, staff, faculty and concertgoers are part of the neighborhood’s lifeblood, and this exciting restoration project, long overdue, will increase its appeal to both residents and visitors.”

The four parks have been in slow but steady decline in recent years. The area’s sidewalks and the steps leading up to the monument are crumbling and showing signs of age. The landscape has not been maintained, and several drainage issues exist.

The city-owned Washington Monument, designed by architect Robert Mills, was closed to the public last summer due to safety concerns. Specifically, an engineering firm found flaws in the balcony, including some missing mortar and rusting metal support brackets.

The 178-foot-tall monument was constructed between 1815 and 1829 and predates the more famous Mills-designed Washington Monument in the nation’s capital.

Following an RFP process, Ruppert Landscape was selected to lead the project.

Last month, landscapers planted flowers and other greenery in the north and south parks, the cast iron urns around the monument and all the concrete urns on the plaza and throughout the squares. All urns and new planting beds will be watered and maintained until the end of October. Some perennial plants were also installed.

Meanwhile, other projects in the parks are moving forward. Fifty hanging baskets will be installed on park lampposts in July. Crews throughout the summer will repair and paint 36 benches, install eight new tables and 48 new chairs, and inspect and prune trees and bushes. Edging and general maintenance will also be done.

Frank said that roughly $12 million needs to be raised to complete the north and south squares, begin work on the east and west squares, and fulfill the majority of capital improvements laid out in the master plan.

He said that JHU will not have a direct role in raising the capital funds, as that will fall on the Mount Vernon Place Conservancy. G

Continued from page 1 landscaping fund. Within two months, the conservancy secured 100 percent participation, raising $65,000.

Andrew Frank, special adviser on economic development to the university’s president and a board member of the Mount Vernon Place Conservancy, said that Johns Hopkins and President Ronald J. Daniels felt an obligation to help move this project forward and let Mount Vernon Place shine in a way it hasn’t in decades.

“The president is very engaged with the neighborhoods around our Baltimore campuses,” he said. “Mount Vernon Place can and should be viewed as an amenity by Peabody students and faculty. The park and the surrounding environment are really an extension of the campus.”

Jeffrey Sharkey, director of the Peabody Institute, agrees.

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Johns Hopkins says ‘thank you’ to its staff

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taff recognition events were held in June for employees reaching service milestones of five, 10, 15 and 20-plus years with the university. Eligible staff members were contacted in the spring to select their length-of-service awards, which included watches, lapel pins, umbrellas and fleeces. Receptions, coordinated in partnership by individual schools and the Office of Work, Life and Engagement, ranged from “luaus” in Homewood’s Glass Pavilion and the School of Medicine’s Turner Concourse to an outdoor celebration at

the School of Nursing to a dinner in Homewood’s Ralph S. O’Connor Recreation Center.

Various members of JHU’s leadership, including President Ron Daniels, showed their appreciation for the collective years of service by attending and delivering remarks at the events. In total, more than 1,600 employees representing more than 20,000 years of service received recognition awards. Details about the events follow, and additional photos are posted online at gazette.jhu.edu.

Staff Recognition and Retirement Dinner: University staff celebrating anniversaries of 20 or more years in five-year increments, and those retiring after more than 10 years on the job, were honored at a Staff Recognition and Retirement Dinner held June 7 in Homewood’s Ralph S. O’Connor Recreation

Center. The contributions of 311 employees and 88 retirees were highlighted throughout the evening. In his opening remarks, President Daniels thanked the staff members and retirees for investing their individual talent, imagination and passion in the success of the entire university community. He added that through their contributions, Johns Hopkins today is stronger, more accomplished and more diverse. He personally congratulated every employee who was recognized, and surprised the crowd at the end of the evening by awarding one lucky recipient with a cruise for two to Alaska or the Caribbean.

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SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: Theodore Alban, Gina Hawley and Sandra Vieyra; Ray Edgerton Sr. and Zelda Buchanan; Rhea Dubs, Ed Miller, David Nichols and Mathilda Barnes.

SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH: Betty Addison, Pat Lambdin and Helen Dunne; Lanisha Burke and Karen Loehr; Ross Mckenzie and Dawson Randle.

SCHOOL OF NURSING: Helene Grady, Melissa Rosenberger and Michael Vaughn; Chanel Newsome and Jackie Gray; Theron Feist and George Anagnostou.

HOMEWOOD: Margaret Burri, Kelly Spring and Betsy Merrill; Dana Green, Clarence McNeill and Deborah Norris; Rich Stafford, Joseph Zolenas and Hassan Khaleghzadegan.

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STAFF RECOGNITION AND RETIREMENT DINNER: Brenda Gray and John Gray; Carol Bocchini and President Daniels; Kathleen Wetzel, Carolee Stewart, Virginia Probasco and Bob Probasco.

Staff Continued from preceding page while celebrating their milestone anniversaries on June 9 in the Bernstein-Offit Building. Twenty-two employees participated in the celebration, with nine marking their five-year anniversary; eight, their 10-year; and five, their 15-year.

School of Nursing: On a beautiful sunny afternoon, Helen Grady, associate dean for finance and administration, spoke on behalf of Dean Martha Hill and introduced School of Nursing staff members reaching milestone anniversaries.

Eight employees with five years of service, four with 10 and two with 15 received awards at this reception, held June 14 in the courtyard. The school added a personal touch by inviting supervisors to deliver remarks about their staff being recognized.

Homewood Recognition Reception (Academic and Cultural Centers, Carey Business School, Homewood Student Affairs, Jhpiego, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Peabody Institute, Professional Schools Administration, School of Education, Sheridan Libraries/JHU Museums, Johns Hopkins Club, JHU Press, University Administration, Whiting School of Engineering): Award recipients honored at Homewood donned leis and celebrated with a luau-style buffet and steel drum music as they received awards from leaders of their respective divisions.

Daniel Ennis, senior vice president for finance and administration, and Charlene Hayes, vice president for human resources, addressed the attendees, saying that Johns Hopkins was a better place thanks to their contributions. Two hundred employees with five years of service, 144 with 10 years and 71 with 15 years were honored at this event, held June 15 in Homewood’s Glass Pavilion.

Bloomberg School of Public Health: Attendees at the Bloomberg School’s event, held June 21 in Feinstone Hall, enjoyed a hearty buffet as school leadership handed out

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recognition awards to 63 staff members with five years of service, 49 with 10 years and 25 with 15 years. Along with their recognition awards, those celebrating milestone anniversaries were given special ribbons to wear, and their names were projected on a giant screen in acknowledgment of their achievement.

School of Medicine: Edward D. Miller, dean of the School of Medicine and CEO of Johns Hopkins Medicine, thanked those receiving awards at the school’s recognition reception, held June 27 in Turner Concourse. Miller cited the dedication of the employees being recognized as the reason that Johns Hopkins continues to be the “best of the best” in patient health care. During this year’s Hawaiian-themed reception, more than 650 staff members were eligible to be recognized—331 with five years of service, 233 with 10 years and 87 with 15 years. On hand to present service awards to their respective staffs were chairs and supervisors from 32 departments and offices, ranging from the Clinical Practice Association to Urology. G

To view more photos of this year’s staff recognition receptions, go to gazette.jhu.edu.

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from a presentation at school by “Miki” Mikalauskas, chief clinical officer at Corniche, and considered it an ideal landing spot due to its U.K. midwife model.

Unlike in U.S. hospitals, where nurses and physicians provide care, the midwives at Corniche provide all labor and delivery nursing care, including delivering the baby.

Obstetricians are called in only to work with high-risk patients.

“I was looking to work abroad and with a midwife, and this seemed like a great oppor-

babies. Each experience, she said, has been emotional, but one birth stands out.

A couple from Syria came to the hospital to have their first baby. Hatcher worked closely with the woman, who had become fully dilated by the time Hatcher’s shift was ending. Having already spent several hours with the patient, she decided to see it through. Little did she know that the labor would end up taking more than 14 hours.

“All the time, the husband was demanding to know how his wife was doing. He was so anxious. He wanted to know if we could make it go faster,” Hatcher said. “She was not coping well, too, and it was very tense.”

Unlike most maternity patients at the hospital, the woman opted for an epidural.

When the time came to deliver, the woman suffered a third-degree tear, but both she and the baby (a girl) were fine.

“The couple was in tears. Just pure joy,” Hatcher said. “For me, it was the first tear I’d ever seen, and it was kind of shocking. I know the whole experience will stick with me for a long time.”

To date, Hatcher has helped assist with 15 deliveries. She’s also learned a bit of Arabic, including the words for “breathe” (nefas) and “don’t worry” (malish).

She returns to Baltimore later this month to finish her studies, but you can read of her exploits in the Middle East at her blog at blogs.nursing.jhu.edu/category/accelerated/ jamie-accel-11.

Daniel Wodicka Science of concussions

SAIS student Chris Cochran, above, is at Walmart headquarters in Arkansas, interning in corporate sustainability.

until August. “At Johns Hopkins we seemingly have everything we need in the lab.

Here, you make do. You just have to find engineering solutions to get these cars running.”

To fix a 1956 Maserati 300S due at a car show in three weeks, Kelly and other museum staff had to completely remove, clean and then reassemble the vehicle’s engine, valued at $2 million.

“Dr. Simeone got a little panicked with that one,” he said. “But he trusts us to take care of these cars.”

The car made it to the show on time.

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he professional and support staff at Abu Dhabi’s Corniche Hospital, dubbed the premier maternity facility in the Middle East, help deliver more than 8,000 babies annually.

Jamie Hatcher wanted in on the excitement.

As an accelerated nursing student at the School of Nursing, Hatcher had to choose this summer a final clinical rotation, a seven-week position at a hospital or clinic working one-on-one with a nurse.

Hatcher learned of the Corniche Hospital

tunity,” said Hatcher, a former Peace Corps volunteer who previously worked in a rural health clinic with a midwife in Madagascar and a women’s health NGO in Uganda.

Located in downtown Abu Dhabi, Corniche Hospital can handle up to 285 inpatients at a time, with facilities for 50 intensive care cases. The hospital, owned and operated by Abu Dhabi Health Services Co., is managed by Johns Hopkins Medicine International.

Hatcher arrived in Abu Dhabi on June 5 and promptly stepped into a sauna: Her first day, the temperature was 113 degrees, made worse by the humidity.

She called it an easy transition despite the heat and cultural differences. What struck her specifically was how men and women were separated. Women, revered in the United Arab Emirates, get the seats at the front of the bus, have the right of way on the sidewalk and are seldom approached in public.

She also noticed the immense amount of construction.

“It seems like every block you walk down there is a new building under construction,” said Hatcher, who comes from Montana.

Not that she has much time to sightsee; the hospital keeps her busy. On any given day, Hatcher could help deliver two to three

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aniel Wodicka has seen—and felt— his share of violent on-field collisions.

A three-sport athlete in high school, Wodicka currently plays wide receiver for the Johns Hopkins Blue Jays football squad.

“You play football long enough, you definitely see some hard hits,” said Wodicka, a sophomore biomedical engineering major in the Whiting School of Engineering. “I’ve watched a few of my teammates laid out.

I’ve been knocked out a few times, but never been diagnosed with a concussion.”

With concussions such a hot topic in sports these days, Wodicka felt compelled to dive into the study. In particular, he was inspired by a Sports Illustrated article published last year that focused on Purdue University engineering researchers who were examining the health consequences of repetitive hits, even the less violent ones.

The researchers at Purdue’s Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering—just miles from Wodicka’s home—fitted football helmets with accelerometers to measure the force and quantity of hits and then gave the players wearing the helmets an ImPact test, a computerized neurocognitive exam that tests memory and concentration. Some players also were given complete MRI scans.

Wodicka, a West Lafayette, Ind., native, contacted the lead faculty member in the study to see if he could participate in the research work this summer.

“To be able to live at home, and get some

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Carey Business School student Carolyn Nold, left, is in Rwanda, working with microfinance institutions.

Biomedical engineering major Daniel Wodicka, right, is at Purdue University, studying the health consequences of high-impact sports.

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sic that I hoped he might want to part with,” Kelly said with a laugh.

As he does with other cars, Kelly got under the vehicle’s hood to get the engine purring.

This summer, he might be called on to revamp a vehicle’s fuel system, replace parts or do whatever is necessary to get a car in motion. The museum features all operational cars that get driven at its demo days and at expos. The majority look like they just came off the racetrack in their heyday, cleaned up but not fully restored.

“Dr. Simeone wants people to hear them and smell them, and not just be museum showpieces,” said Kelly, a Haverford, Pa., native.

For Kelly, the volunteer work is a labor of love, as cars have been his passion since middle school. As a young teen, Kelly built a Shelby Cobra kit car himself. Since his freshman year, Kelly has been involved with Hopkins Baja, a club of undergraduate students who design, build and race one-seat off-road vehicles as part of the Baja SAE international collegiate design competitions.

Kelly, who has worked at the Simeone Museum the past two summers, learned of the collection from a Philadelphia Inquirer feature and contacted the neurosurgeon directly about volunteering his services.

He calls the experience a dream summer job.

“It’s really exciting, and I love the challenge,” said Kelly, who will be at the museum

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research experience related to a passion of mine, was just the perfect opportunity,” he said.

He started his 11-week stint at Purdue on May 19. As an undergraduate researcher, Wodicka works five days a week in the lab, mostly examining MRI brain images as part of an effort to better diagnose concussions.

The researchers are working with local high schools, and in the upcoming fall season will fit mouth guards with motion sensors for boys’ and girls’ soccer teams.

“We’re not just looking at the big hits but the smaller hits that over time can cause some level of brain damage later on in life,” he said. “It’s helping to improve diagnoses.”

Wodicka said that the research can also help design better football helmets and other sports equipment by putting extra thickness or padding into crucial parts of the equipment.

“We’re also looking at what athletes at what positions are receiving the most hits and the worst scores in our tests,” he said.

For Wodicka, this is his first real research opportunity, and he’s loved the experience so far.

“What stands out, in particular, was seeing how much I’ve already learned my freshman year at Johns Hopkins,” he said. “And now I have this chance to apply that knowledge and further learn from it.”

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popular mode of taxi service in Rwanda is by motorcycle, but nobody told Carolyn Nold that you shouldn’t hold onto the driver.

She quickly learned a new meaning of trust.

“I was more than a little nervous, especially the first few bouncy trips,” said Nold, an MBA student in the Carey Business School.

Nold is braving these motorcycle journeys to and from work as part of the Kiva Fellowship Program, which sends fellows abroad to see the world of microfinance at work.

Kiva, founded in 2005, works with microfinance institutions on five continents to provide loans to people without access to traditional banking systems. The organization raises funds online and then sends the money to the institutions, which administer loans in the field.

The loans that Kiva helps provide would not otherwise be available, and could make all the difference for a farmer looking to purchase new equipment or someone wanting to open a small business.

The Kiva Fellowship is an unpaid volunteer position designed to increase the organization’s impact and to offer participants a unique insider experience.

Nold, who arrived in Rwanda on May 17, is working this summer with three microfinance institutions in the town of Kigali. She will help facilitate the Kiva partnership with the institutions and also work on various projects, such as conducting social audits, Continued on page 12

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ifteen 2011 graduates, two graduate students and two recent alumni from across the university have been given the opportunity to study abroad during the 2011–2012 academic year through the prestigious Fulbright Program. Seventeen have accepted the grants, and two will study abroad through other programs.

Johns Hopkins’ latest “Fulbrighters” from the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, the Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Peabody Conservatory of Music are among the approximately 2,800 U.S. students and scholars awarded grants this year.

Established in 1946 under legislation introduced by Sen. J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, the Fulbright Program is sponsored by the Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Approximately 8,000 new grants are awarded annually, funded by an appropriation from Congress along with support from participating governments and host institutions, corporations and foundations in foreign countries.

Approximately 310,000 scholars—116,900 from the United States and 192,800 from other countries—have participated in the program since its inception.

The 2011–2012 Johns Hopkins scholars come from a wide range of disciplines and have destinations spanning the globe.

Toshiro Baum will travel to Morocco to examine the political dynamics surrounding the creation of the country’s energy development policy, examining its effectiveness and the ramifications for using renewable energy sources in energy development. Baum earned his bachelor’s degree in international studies from the Krieger School in May. Luke Chang will be a Fulbright English

teaching assistant in Malaysia. Chang earned his bachelor’s degree in molecular and cellular biology from the Krieger School in May. Minhaj Chowdhury will travel to Bangladesh to examine the arsenic crisis in rural areas, studying how villagers view the oftencontradictory interventions by the international public health community to mitigate groundwater contamination. Chowdhury earned his bachelor’s degree in public health studies from the Krieger School in May. In Botswana, Ryan Davis will conduct a subproject of an ongoing study monitoring viral mutations and immune dynamics from the acute stage of HIV-1C infection at the Botswana-Harvard AIDS Institute in Gaborone. Davis, who earned his master of public health degree from the Bloomberg School in May, was awarded the Fulbright-Fogarty Fellowship, offered in partnership with the National Institutes of Health to promote the expansion of research in public health and clinical research in resource-limited settings.

Meghan Dombrink-Green will travel to Cyprus as a Fulbright English teaching assistant. Dombrink-Green received her master’s degree in writing from the Krieger School’s Advanced Academic Programs in May. Using unique and newly patented biomechanical techniques, Kevin Doxzen will conduct a study of prostate cancer metastasis in the Nano Biomechanics Laboratory at the National University of Singapore, with the goal of providing a greater understanding of the structure and function of mobile cancer cells. Doxzen earned his bachelor’s degree in biophysics in May from the Krieger School.

Shalene Gupta will be a Fulbright English teaching assistant in Malaysia. She graduated in 2009 from the Krieger School, where she majored in Writing Seminars and psychology.

Mahnaz Harrison will travel to Georgia to research the current state of cancer care

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$3 million endowment grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will increase support for doctoral students in the humanities in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins. The grant will primarily give stipends to doctoral students during the summer months, when they are preparing for field examinations, conducting research and writing theses.

“We are so grateful for this additional funding from the Mellon Foundation, which will help us continue to attract the very brightest students to our graduate programs,” said Katherine S. Newman, the James B. Knapp Dean of the school. “This significant grant will allow us to begin providing sustained support for our graduate students in the summer months, when they make critical progress toward their degrees. We will be able to improve student stipend levels and enhance programming.”

Depending on endowment performance over the next few years, the new Mellon funding also may enable the humanities departments at Johns Hopkins to expand their advanced, individualized language trainings to include Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Arabic, Aramaic and numerous African languages. Grant monies also could supply funding for individual travel and research, which will provide doctoral candidates more opportunities to vet and refine their studies with global peers.

“This generous funding will have a profound impact on our ability to support the changing and increasingly complex requirements of graduate education in the humanities,” Newman said. “I am especially grateful

to Gabrielle Spiegel, the Krieger Eisenhower Professor of History, who was instrumental in helping us craft the proposal.”

The new funds will be available in 2012 and will supplement the existing Mellon Endowment for Graduate Students in the Humanities, established in 2007 to support graduate training and research.

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grants currently support five core program areas: higher education and scholarship, scholarly communications and information technology, museums and art conservation, performing arts, and conservation and the environment. The foundation’s grant-making philosophy is to build, strengthen and sustain institutions and their core capacities.

policy in order to help provide a blueprint for policymakers as the country positions itself to draft and adopt a national cancer control program. Harrison graduated from SAIS with the Master of International Public Policy degree in May. In Egypt, Sara Hassani will evaluate the rate of hepatitis C (HCV) transmission from HCV-positive mothers to their offspring by simulating the dynamics of transmission using a mathematical model. She also plans to engage with the Egyptian community as an American ambassador to promote cross-cultural interaction as a way to more effectively treat and prevent diseases. Hassani earned her bachelor’s degree from the Krieger School in 2010 and her master of health science degree in molecular microbiology and immunology from the Bloomberg School of Public Health in May. Jasmine Hogan won a Fulbright but chose instead to accept a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship, pursuing the same project. She will study at the China Conservatory of Music in Beijing, researching traditional instruments and the way in which the Chinese traditional music program is taught in Beijing in conjunction with the Western music program. Hogan earned a bachelor’s degree in the harp from the Peabody Conservatory in May. Michelle Jackson will travel to Panama to address digital technology’s impact on Panamanian Chinese ethnic solidarity, communication between Panamanian Chinese and their mainland Chinese and Taiwanese relatives, and the implications for political relations. Jackson received a Master of Arts in International Studies degree from the Hopkins-Nanjing Center for Chinese and American Studies in June.

Daisy Kim, a graduate student in the Krieger School’s Department of Political Science, will be in South Korea, studying the increase in the number of women from China and Southeast Asia who migrate to South Korea for marriage and settlement.

Jessica Kraus won a Fulbright to Vietnam but declined it, choosing to accept the Princeton in Asia Fellowship with Population Services International based in Hanoi.

During the full-year post, she will be exposed to a wide range of research being conducted by PSI’s teams across the region. The research ranges from outlet audits to inform distribution strategies for health products to pre-testing of behavior change communications materials. Kraus earned her bachelor’s degree in public health studies in May from the Krieger School.

Elya Papoyan will travel to Armenia to study the descriptive epidemiology and development of drug-resistant tuberculosis, which poses a large threat to the country and its people. Papoyan earned her bachelor’s degree in neuroscience from the Krieger School in May. In rural western Kenya, Carolyn Pearce will interview women in mobile clinics, and health care providers, to assess their understanding of cervical cancer, the most lethal cancer among

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Aliyah Sanders will pursue a master’s degree in Germany through the Translational Medical Research program at the University of Heidelberg. Sanders earned her bachelor’s degree in neuroscience from the Krieger School in May. Jacqueline Sofia will study the institutional response to female domestic violence in Jordan, partnering with a foundation and a national commission to implement methods for first-responders. Sofia, who earned her bachelor’s degree in international studies from the Krieger School in 2009, is a program associate with the Center for Global Health at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she is also a part-time student.

Dara Weinberg will study how Polish theaters work with forms resembling the Greek chorus by enrolling in the yearlong master’s training program with a theater in Wroclaw, Poland, called “Song of the Goat” (Teatr Piesn Kozla). Weinberg earned her master of fine arts degree in poetry from the Writing Seminars in the Krieger School in May. Students and alumni interested in the Fulbright U.S. Student Program should contact their school’s Fulbright adviser: for SAIS, Lisa Kahn; Medicine, Nursing and Public Health, Cassie Klein; and all others, scholarships@jhu .edu. More information on the Fulbright is available at fulbright.state.gov.

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Johns Hopkins researchers create new mouse model of autism

By Maryalice Yakutchik

Johns Hopkins Medicine

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n an effort to unravel the tangled biology of autism, Johns Hopkins scientists have created a mouse model that mimics a human mutation of a gene known to be associated with autism spectrum disorders.

Experiments with the engineered mouse reveal a molecular mechanism by which mutations of the gene named Shank3 affect the brain and behavior to evoke an autismlike disorder in mice.

Reporting on the study in the May 27 issue of the journal Cell, the Johns Hopkins team reveals how a mutation of Shank3 leads to altered communication between brain cells at synapses, those gaps between cells across which electrical information flows.

The team first identified Shank proteins in studies of synaptic proteins that are regulated by neuronal activity. The scientists say they were motivated to make the new mouse after other investigators showed that a subset of children with autism carries mutations of the Shank3 gene. Patients with a mutation that prevented Shank3 proteins from forming complexes at the synapse had particularly severe disease despite having one mutant and one normal copy of Shank3.

To refine a mouse model of the disease that mimicked the human mutation, the researchers altered one copy of Shank3 and left intact a normal copy of the gene.

“We hope our model of accelerated protein degradation will be applicable to other genetic causes of autism and, perhaps, schizophrenia,” said Paul Worley, a professor of neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. “Behavioral changes in these mice can be understood to be the result of the changes in synaptic proteins.”

Ali Bangash, a graduate student of biological chemistry and molecular biology working in Worley’s lab, used biochemical methods to survey the levels and activity of the Shank3 protein in sections of brain from the Shank3 mutant mouse. He discovered that the amount of normal Shank3 protein was dramatically reduced in the new Shank3 mutant. In addition, the mutant Shank3 protein seemed to cause any normal Shank3 protein to be targeted for rapid degradation.

In fact, the amount of Shank3 that makes its way to where it’s supposed to be, at synapses in the brain, is reduced by 90 percent in mutant mice compared to normal mice, according to Worley.

“By mutating one copy of Shank3, we didn’t simply lose half of the amount of protein that normally would be produced; we lost more of good protein,” Worley said, adding that the researchers also noted behavioral and electrophysiological changes when they mutated one copy of Shank3 in mice.

In one experiment, the scientists electrically stimulated nerve cells from the mouse brains, assessed the strength of synapses from Shank3 mutants and compared these to brain tissue from normal, wild-type mice.

They found that the ratio of two different types of proteins vital to memory and learning was out of whack in Shank3 mutants.

The team also assessed the behaviors of the Shank3 mutants by using social interaction tests and comparing them to wild-type

mice. In one test, a Shank3 mutant was placed with another mouse in a cage, leaving both free to explore their surroundings.

The Shank3 mutant mouse spent much of the time shying away from social interaction. The wild-type showed an increased level of interest, indicated by time spent sniffing the Shank3 mutant. However, when the Shank3 mutant was allowed to roam free while the other mouse was confined under a dome with slits, the Shank3 mouse showed increased interest, exploring the immobilized mouse more than a wild-type did under the same circumstances. The investigators say this behavior is consistent with characteristics of an autismlike disorder.

In another test, a younger mouse was introduced three times to a Shank3 mutant and to a wild-type mouse. Both the wildtype and Shank3 mouse spent less time exploring the young mouse on each successive interaction, indicating that they had gotten used to each other. When a different “surprise” mouse of the same age and genetic background was brought in, the wild-type mouse re-explored the animal with renewed interest, apparently recognizing it as “new.”

The Shank3 mutant, also apparently recognizing it as new, not only re-explored but also became markedly aggressive, nipping and biting the “surprise” mouse, a behavior that the investigators concluded was also autismlike.

Worley says that it is “exceedingly challenging” to make an accurate animal model of autism, a complex neurobiological disorder that inhibits a person’s ability to communicate and develop social relationships.

Autism spectrum disorders are diagnosed in one in 110 children in the United States, and one in 70 boys. According to Autism Speaks, North America’s largest autism science and advocacy organization, the prevalence of autism has increased 600 percent in the past two decades. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has called autism a national public health crisis, the cause and cure of which remain unknown.

This work was supported by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institute of Mental Health, Autism Speaks, National 973 Basic Research Program of China, The Autism Science Foundation, The Hartwell Foundation and the NIDCD Intramural Program.

In addition to Worley and Bangash, Johns Hopkins authors are Joo Min Park, Tatiana Melnikova, Soo Kyeong Jeon, Deidre Lee, Sbaa Syeda, Juno Kim, Joshua Schwartz, Jian Cheng Tu, Jia-Hua Hu, David J. Linden, Alena Savonenko and Bo Xiao.

Additional authors are Dehua Wang, Yiyuan Cui and Xia Zhao, all of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China; Mehreen Kouser, Haley E. Speed, Craig M. Powell and Sara E. Kee, all of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center; and Ronald S. Petralia, of the National Institutes of Health.

Related websites Paul Worley:

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‘Cell’:

www.cell.com

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3402 Mt Pleasant Ave, completely rehabbed house nr all Johns Hopkins campuses, new price. $159,900. Pitina, 410-900-7436.

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’98 Pontiac Firebird, silver, just passed Md inspection, runs great, 147K mi. $3,000/best offer. 443-513-0488. ’01 VW Passat 1.8T, green, garaged, regular maintenance, everything works, excel cond, 79K mi. $5,500/best offer. 443-562-3447. ’00 Volvo V70 XC, burgundy/cream leather, reliable and safe, recent emissions/safety inspections, 152K mi. $3,700/best offer.

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Annual Summer Reception for the Hopkins-Nanjing Center, featuring a panel discussion on the topic “Mapping Chinese and American Mindsets: The Nitty-Gritty of Successful U.S.-China Partnerships” with David Lampton, dean of faculty, SAIS; Carla Freeman, deputy director, SAIS China Studies Program; and Jason Patent, incoming American co-director of HNC. Reception follows at 6:30 p.m. For information or to RSVP, email nanjing@jhu.edu. Kenney Auditorium, Nitze Bldg. SAIS Sun., July 17, 1 to 4 p.m. “The Carrolls’ 211th Wedding Anniversary Tea,” traditional afternoon tea in the reception hall of Homewood Museum, finger sandwiches, scones with clotted cream and jam, seasonal fruits, pastries, a selection of black and fruit teas and a celebratory Champagne toast. (See In Brief, p. 2, and photo, this page.) Two seatings at 1 and 3 p.m. $28 general admission, $23 for members; includes museum admission. Prepaid reservations only; call 410-516-5589. Sponsored by JHU Museums. Homewood Museum. HW

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“Neuregulin 1 Signaling Regulates Schwann Cell Migration,” a Carnegie Institution Embryology seminar with Julie Perlin, Stanford University School of Medicine.

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Students Continued from page 8 verifying loan information, launching new loan products and assisting with marketing.

The loan success stories that Nold tells will appear on the Kiva website and in the organization’s publications.

One of her first duties was to help launch a new loan for rice farmers. As part of this effort, she traveled to nearby villages to hear directly from the farmers, take photos, collect information and give it back to Kiva.

“I hear about the challenges these farmers face, such as the need for new equipment or grain, or lack of rainfall,” said Nold, a Chicago native.

In Kigali, Nold resides at a youth hostel with magnificent views of Rwanda’s rolling mountains. “This place is called the land of 1,000 hills, and it’s clear why,” she said. “It’s breathtaking.”

During her stay, Nold has already found time for a safari trip to see wild mountain gorillas and a visit to the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre, which tells of the nation’s past horrors. Nold said that seeing the mountain gorillas up close was amazing.

She said that she’s been equally amazed with the Rwandan people. “They have been

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so kind and welcoming to me. They are so proud of their country, and it’s eye-opening to hear their stories,” Nold said. “They’ve been so willing to share with me.”

As for her work, Nold said it’s all she expected and more.

“I’m just so excited to learn about microfinance and go beyond theoretical knowledge of it,” she said. “It’s been energizing to hear the stories of the borrowers, such as a group of women local business owners with families to take care of. They wonder why I’m here, so far from my home, to learn about them.”

Nold will return to Baltimore in mid-August with a year left in her MBA studies. She’s not sure what will happen after graduation but expects she will be in the private sector at a socially minded lending institution.

Chris Cochran Walmart and sustainability

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o hear Chris Cochran talk these days, you’d think he permanently wore a Walmart smiley face. The SAIS student extols the retail giant he’s working for this summer, even frequently using the “we” pronoun when referring to his employer.

Cochran is interning in corporate sustainability at Walmart headquarters in Bentonville, Ark. This Arkansas native used to have mixed,

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somewhat negative feelings about Walmart, the company.

“On the one hand, Walmart provides savings to consumer families. On the other hand, Walmart had a poor track record in social and environmental practices for many years,” said Cochran, who is working toward a Master of Arts degree in international relations and plans to graduate next year.

“When I left Arkansas to work in Honduras with CARE International, a nonprofit organization, I couldn’t have imagined ever coming back to Arkansas to work, much less with Walmart.”

However, Cochran said that through his projects in Honduras and course work in international development at SAIS, he realized that companies in the private sector play a critical role in global environmental, social and economic development.

He took notice when Walmart in recent years made noteworthy improvements to its employment and operational practices, and integrated sustainability into its core business strategy.

“Walmart is the largest company in the world and has significant effects on the standard of living of both customers and producers all over the globe,” he said. “I chose to intern at Walmart this summer because one small change at this company can quite literally change the world.”

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mart’s global food and agricultural commitments with Beth Keck, a SAIS alumna and senior director of sustainability at Walmart.

Keck and Cochran met through a Net Impact event at SAIS in the spring. The SAIS Net Impact club is a student-run chapter of the broader Net Impact nonprofit organization that seeks to inspire, educate and equip individuals to use the power of business to create a more socially and environmentally sustainable world.

Cochran started on May 23. The first month there he participated in a shareholders meeting and the company’s annual global sustainability leadership summit. At the summit, Walmart associates from five continents came together to discuss sustainability commitments and share best practices and success stories.

Now, Cochran has his hands on projects such as Walmart’s direct farm program, which looks to sell $1 billion in food sourced from 1 million small- and medium-size farming operations. The intent of the program is to create farming jobs, improve food quality and lower Walmart’s cost, a savings it can then pass on to consumers.

Cochran is also researching Walmart’s beef and timber products. “We are assessing the risks in our supply chain and identifying opportunities for improvements in efficiency and environmental impact,” he said. G